Well, the birds have been carved, and a lucky few Thanks-givers got their wish on the big end of the wishbone. But we’re still loaded down with leftovers from last week’s bountiful feast of animated Pilgrim depictions.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of invisible men? Maybe not the Shadow – but animation fans certainly do! More invisibility feats that need to be ‘not-seen’ to be believed.
Wicke only voiced the villainous Bluto for a few years, from approximately 1935 to 1938, but to highly memorable effect, especially in Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad.
Here are my usual favorite 4th of July cartoons, or films that have the flavor of American ideals sprinkled in them.
Something was a edited out of this 1947 Popeye cartoon. Do you have a theory on what might have been contained in the cut footage?
Today a couple of plugs for some stuff I want to make sure every reader of Cartoon Research is aware of.
Since today is the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, I was reminded of the role animation played in the second World War.
Bob Hope has been caricatured several times in animation, most notably in cartoons distributed by Paramount where Hope did several live-action comedies. Here’s a checklist.
In 1938, The National Board of Review magazine published a radio transcript of “an instructional talk” by Fleischer animator Tom Moore and voice/story artist Jack Mercer.
Is there any connection between a 1950 Disney Goofy cartoon and a 1960s King Features Popeye? Yes – director Jack Kinney used both characters two teach drivers safety.
